Muschelkalkböden

English translation: shell limestone soils

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Bright, refined, always tasteful, Little Baron Riesling has been raised on the same ancient shell limestone soils, schlepped upon by his estimable ancestors down through the mists of Mosellian history. At casual gatherings, the delightfully diminutive Little Baron displays all the freshness and wide-eyed promise of youth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muschelkalk:
Muschelkalk (German for "Mussel chalk") is the term in geology for the middle member of the German Triassic. It consists of a series of calcareous, many and dolomitic beds which lie conformably between the Bunter and Keuper formations.

The name Muschelkalk (Fr., calcaire coquillier; concijylien, formation of D'Orbigny) indicates a characteristic feature in this series, viz, the frequent occurrence of lenticular banks composed of fossil shells, remarkable in the midst of a singularly barren group. In its typical form the Muschelkalk is practically restricted to the German region and its immediate neighborhood; it is found in Thuringia, Harz, Franconia, Hesse, Swabia, and the Saar and Alsace districts. Northward it extends into Silesia, Poland and Heligoland. Representatives are found in the Alps, west and south of the Vosges, in Moravia, near Toulon and Montpellier, in Spain and Sardinia; in Romania, Bosnia, Dalmatia, and beyond this into Asia in the Himalayas, China, Australia, California, and in North Africa (Constantine).

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Muschelkalkböden

Middle Triassic

Explanation:"Muschelkalk" is correct in English. But you could use "middle triassic soils" as the two are synonymous. Another option may be lime soils or soils (based) on limestone bedrock or country rock.

Gillian Scheibelein: I prefer Muschelkalk soils as Muschelkalk refers to a certain sedimentary sequence of shelly limestone, marl, mudstone, siltstone, etc. These have given rise to a corresponding group of soils with local differentiation depending on the predominant beds.

geology
The formation of Big Cypress goes back through geologic time to when the Florida peninsula was covered by the ocean. As oceanic debris was deposited on the sea floor, limestone began to form. ... formations are dolomite overlaid with freshwater marl, limestone, shell marl. This shows how the land here ...

http://www.winesforfood.com/TheWine.asp?ID=61&C=A:
Bright, refined, always tasteful, Little Baron Riesling has been raised on the same ancient shell limestone soils, schlepped upon by his estimable ancestors down through the mists of Mosellian history. At casual gatherings, the delightfully diminutive Little Baron displays all the freshness and wide-eyed promise of youth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muschelkalk:
Muschelkalk (German for "Mussel chalk") is the term in geology for the middle member of the German Triassic. It consists of a series of calcareous, many and dolomitic beds which lie conformably between the Bunter and Keuper formations.

The name Muschelkalk (Fr., calcaire coquillier; concijylien, formation of D'Orbigny) indicates a characteristic feature in this series, viz, the frequent occurrence of lenticular banks composed of fossil shells, remarkable in the midst of a singularly barren group. In its typical form the Muschelkalk is practically restricted to the German region and its immediate neighborhood; it is found in Thuringia, Harz, Franconia, Hesse, Swabia, and the Saar and Alsace districts. Northward it extends into Silesia, Poland and Heligoland. Representatives are found in the Alps, west and south of the Vosges, in Moravia, near Toulon and Montpellier, in Spain and Sardinia; in Romania, Bosnia, Dalmatia, and beyond this into Asia in the Himalayas, China, Australia, California, and in North Africa (Constantine).